Author: Chris Anu

When a president or a prime minister loses an election there’s usually an obvious alternative lined up and ready for action. ‘Succession’ politics can be complex and have been debated by historians for many centuries; the International Criminal Court’s current parlous state makes it ripe for such speculation. Following prosecutor Karim Khan’s official ouster by…

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Some Supreme Court arguments seem relatively easy to read. After the court reheard Louisiana v. Callais, SCOTUSblog reported that the court appeared “ready to curtail [a] major provision of the Voting Rights Act.” Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, and Neil Gorsuch had questioned the constitutionality of race-conscious redistricting, while Justice Brett Kavanaugh suggested that such remedies might require…

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Articles 76 and 143 of theFourth Geneva Conventionrequire that representatives of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) be granted access to places of detention, with “full liberty” to choose the facilities they wish to visit. Article 143 further provides that delegates must be allowed to interview detainees privately, without representatives of the detaining…

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